This is just incorrectly attributing germanys success to the Marshall plan! Yes, the Marshall plan helped Germany recover. But the Marshall plan had absolutely

This is just incorrectly attributing germanys success to the Marshall plan! Yes, the Marshall plan helped Germany recover. But the Marshall plan had absolutely nothing to do with the "Mittelstand" emerging as a predominant industry type. There is nothing in the Marshall plan that enabled this to happen. More than anything, this has to do with German ability to unite goals of labour and market capitalism, commonly referred to as social capitalism in Germany. It majorly aligns labour and company ownerships goals. Labour wants to have reliable jobs, which you achieve by being highly skilled and thereby competitive. Owners want to be competitive and can do this via highly skilled labour. Labour representatives are by law required to be on a companies board. This is what forces labour and owners to work together. It has lead to a highly skilled and competitive workforce that enables the Mittelstand. There are other factors that help, but none of them are as important. This has nothing as such to do with the Marshall plan. It's very ignorant to attribute this success to "americas help". it's borderline offensive and does not actually engage with the primary argument in the article. If you want to learn from germanys success, you should read up on labour represantatives being on the company board, rather than attributing it to something that is barely related.